Anti-jewish Student Agitation in Warsaw Quietenting Down: National Democratic Organ Stops Incitement

The anti-Jewish student agitation in Warsaw is showing signs of quietening down, and to-day passed here without any incident. All the Universities throughout the country remain closed, however, and strong police patrols are still out in the streets to preserve order.

The “Gazeta Warszawska”, the official organ of the National Democratic Party, which has been conducting a fierce anti-Jewish campaign in connection with the student movement, appeared to-day without any inflammatory matter, and even went to the extent of throwing out a suggestion for negotiations between the Jews and the Polish people, which is taken here as a hint that the National Democratic Party is willing to come to an arrangement with the Jews and to put a stop to the anti-Jewish violence. The Club of Jewish Deputies is unaware, however, of any such desire, and nothing to this effect has been communicated to it, Deputy Dr. Rosmarin, Vice-President of the Club of Jewish Deputies, told the J.T.A. to-day. It is believed that the National Democratic Party leaders have had their attention drawn by some of their colleagues living in foreign countries to the damage done by the disturbances to Polish prestige abroad. Even M. Roman Dmovski, the leader of the National Democratic Party, and a notorious Jew-baiter, is reported to have appealed to his colleagues in the Party to call off the anti-Jewish incitement.

To-day’s issue of the Bundist paper, the “Volkscajtung”, has been confiscated by the authorities, because of the report which it has published of the anti-Jewish attacks in Vilna.

A Conference of the Rectors of all the Polish Universities is being opened here to-morrow in order to consider whether it is advisable now to reopen the Universities. It is suggested that they may be reopened on Thursday.

The Director of the Polytechnic invited a delegation of Jewish students to visit him to-day and appealed to them to see that the Jewish students should keep the peace. At the same time, the Director opened negotiations with the representatives of the Polish students to induce them to give him an undertaking that they will abstain from further violence. The students put a demand to the Director, it is stated, that the front rows of the seats in the lecture halls should be reserved for Polish students only.